Friday, July 02, 2010

Rewinding a bit

We'll try to post trenchant little observations about Afghanistan when we can. But really, it's hard not to talk about stuff here without it sounding like political commentary, which we studiously avoid. We have to parcel out our comments on such mundane items as the food or the laundry room so that they last the full year.

So, for now we're going to go back and fill in a few gaps with pictures or whatever from the last couple months. Sorry if hearing about home leave isn't as exciting as hearing about taking rocket fire in Afghanistan. But so far, we haven't taken any rocket fire, so we're working with what we've got here.

Above: Noe Valley, SF. Shot with the little camera that apparently had a big hair in the middle of the lens.

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Guatemala? Rio de Janeiro? Huh?

This journal once chronicled the experience of a low-level American diplomat living in Guatemala. Then he went to Latvia, and Afghanistan, and then back "home" to Washington, DC for a bit. He is now serving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. If you are one of the few people of no blood relation to the authors who has come here in search of Guatemalan content, here are a few choices from the archives that we like:

In Afghanistan, the photographic opportunities were often limited to what we could sneak with a point-and-shoot camera out the bulletproof window of a speeding SUV. But sometimes we got out and about. A few favorites from that tour:

We've also vacationed aggressively in each region we've been posted in, and taken some epic home leave trips, usually leading to better photos than those where we were posted. Those photos are included in the blog, but somehow holiday snaps seem beneath this sidebar.